diff --git a/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/Makefile b/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/Makefile
index b7cda10f3a36..ca0a64f4b224 100644
--- a/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/Makefile
@@ -6,17 +6,23 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	Text-Balanced
-PORTVERSION=	1.95
+PORTVERSION=	1.97
 CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
 MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	Text
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
 
-MAINTAINER=	tobez@FreeBSD.org
+MAINTAINER=	perl@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Text::Balanced - extract delimited text sequences from strings
 
 PERL_CONFIGURE=	yes
 
 MAN3=		Text::Balanced.3
 
-.include <bsd.port.mk>
+.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
+
+.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
+IGNORE=		requires perl 5.6.0 or later. Install lang/perl5.8 and try again
+.endif
+
+.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/distinfo b/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/distinfo
index fbf5896a8c81..f3ae978e0bc9 100644
--- a/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/p5-Text-Balanced/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (Text-Balanced-1.95.tar.gz) = 1372379bb5cf036d8e8364ce9bfca27d
-SHA256 (Text-Balanced-1.95.tar.gz) = 2f842b4d8edf20b77022f90031b2a94b2651f4fb62ee13ef1e2a7d12846d571c
-SIZE (Text-Balanced-1.95.tar.gz) = 28133
+MD5 (Text-Balanced-1.97.tar.gz) = b2a2d81baaa1cd5e122d9af9fa413360
+SHA256 (Text-Balanced-1.97.tar.gz) = 6926d8e74b2f8725b1e896887fe362973ecc5b42fd14d862e6fb5628dffcdf6b
+SIZE (Text-Balanced-1.97.tar.gz) = 24476